by lindanathan | Mar 28, 2012 | Arts Education, Teaching and Learning
Last week was a big one for our theatre department, and for the school! Not only did theatre students make it to the semifinals at the state drama festival (the first time we’ve ever participated), but we had an amazing collaboration with Actors’ Shakespeare...
by lindanathan | Mar 21, 2012 | Arts Education, Teaching and Learning
Monday’s piece in the Globe by Mayor Menino and Laura Perille “Arts Education Needs to be Protected” highlights Boston’s wonderful efforts to bring access to a high-quality arts education to all of its students. As the article cites, and as I write in my...
by lindanathan | Mar 13, 2012 | Arts Education, Family/School Involvement, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
Last Thursday we hosted Instructional Rounds (IR) at BAA. Instructional rounds are the new buzzword in education, largely defined by Lee Teitel and Richard Elmore at Harvard. The purpose of the rounds is to analyze and improve teaching and learning practices at the...
by lindanathan | Mar 6, 2012 | Arts Education, Family/School Involvement, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
I had to blog about Confessions of a ‘Bad’ Teacher from this past Sunday’s New York Times… everyone needs to read this article so we can stop and think about how our federal and state policies are affecting teachers and kids in our classrooms....
by lindanathan | Jan 18, 2012 | Arts Education, Teaching and Learning
In mid-December, I spent some time in San Diego and LA, visiting schools and speaking with educators. One of the most gratifying parts of this trip was reconnecting with a former graduate student of mine from the first year I ever taught my class, “Building A...
by lindanathan | Dec 19, 2011 | Arts Education, Family/School Involvement, Interdisciplinary Learning, Teaching and Learning
In November 2009, I had the privilege of attending the Thanksgiving play at the Rafael Hernandez School, a bilingual elementary school in Roxbury where Margarita Muñiz was the principal. This annual musical is a long standing tradition, and in 2009, the play was about...
